What is Tathāgatagarbha: Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within?

Journal Issue

This is a special issue of Acta Asiatica devoted to the topic of tathāgatagarbha. It contains articles by Akira Saitō, Kazuo Kano, Michael Zimmermann, Christopher V. Jones, and Masahiro Shimoda.

Citation	Saitō, Akira, ed. "What is Tathāgatagarbha: Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within?" Special Issue, Acta Asiatica 118 (2020).

SAITŌ Akira: Introductioniii–iv

SAITŌ Akira: Buddha-Nature or Buddha Within? Revisiting the Meaning
of Tathāgata-garbha1–15

KANŌ Kazuo: A Syntactic Analysis of the Term Tathāgatagarbha in
Sanskrit Fragments and Multiple Meanings of Garbha in the
Mahāparinirvāṇamahāsūtra 17–40

Michael ZIMMERMANN: A Multi-associative Term: Why Tathāgatagarbha
Is Not One and the Same41–55

Christopher V. JONES: Reconsidering the "Essence" of Indian Buddha-
Nature Literature57–78

SHIMODA Masahiro: The Structure of the Soteriology of Tathāgatagarbha
Thought as Seen from the Perspective of Different Modes of
Discourse: A Response to Critical Buddhism79–97

List of Contributors98–100